October 16, 2019
UNDERWATER
DescriptionDescription Underwater is the story of an introverted twelve-year-old girl, Patty Rose, who has developed a terrible fear of water since the death of her father. The collision of Patty's fantasies and a real-life crisis force her to confront her fears. Waving Not Drowning is the darkly comedic portrayal of a young man searching for...
October 16, 2019
TOUCH ME
DescriptionDescription Touch Me, from Australian director Paul Cox (Exile, A Woman's Tale) tells of two women who escape the city and their frustrating relationships to spend a weekend alone in the country. The hills around Melbourne provide the setting for an unusual awakening.
October 16, 2019
TRASH
DescriptionDescription The story of Joe and his lover-protector, Holly, who fancies herself as Marlene Dietrich but sounds more like Phil Silvers. They try to make a go of things in their Lower East Side basement, as Holly cruises the Fillmore East and scavenges garbage, and Joe journeys in search of real junk .. Trash is...
October 16, 2019
TROUBLE IN PARADISE
DescriptionDescription This film epitomizes the term "Comedies of Elegance"-all polish, gloss and wit-and witnesses Lubitsch at the height of his film artistry, before the censors hit. Herbert Marshall and Miriam Hopkins play two elegant thieves who realize they are made for each other.
October 16, 2019
TOTAL BALALAIKA SHOW
DescriptionDescription Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki's Total Balalaika Show is the most inspired crosscultural pairing since Nureyev danced with Miss Piggy. This concert documentary has Finland's musically challenged roc·k band, the Leningrad Cowboys, trading hotlicks and bellowing dopey standards with the sometimes baffled, but always sonorous, ex-Red Army choir in a universally crowd-pleasing 1993 performance. From...
October 16, 2019
TOTALLY F***ED UP
DescriptionDescription Totally F***ed Up is acclaimed L.A. filmmaker Gregg Araki's ( The Living End) most mature film to date. Araki goes further out into the margins to explore gay and lesbian youth, and becomes one of the few to treat this invisible population with sensitivity, affection, and respect while tackling issues of alienation, sexuality, homophobia,...
October 16, 2019
TIGRERO: A FILM THAT WAS NEVER MADE
DescriptionDescription In Mika Kaurismaki's innovative new film, legendary director Sam Fuller leads a nostalgic and unconventional journey into the past. Forty years ago, Fuller went into Brazil's Amazonian rainforest to research locations for his adventure film, Tigrero. The project never came to fruition and was all but forgotten until Kaurismaki undertook this documentary. Tigrero portrays...
October 16, 2019
TOPAZE
DescriptionDescription Director Harry D'Arrast photographed common people and places with remarkable elegance. Here he presents an ultra-sophisticated comedy-drama based on a play by Pagnol. John Barrymore portrays a timid French schoolteacher who gets fired, is duped into endorsing a product under false pretenses, and metamorphoses into a tycoon.
October 16, 2019
THIS IS THE NIGHT
DescriptionDescription In this pre-code tale of gay infidelity, Thelma Todd is having an affai.r with Roland Young Young must engage Lily Damita as his wife when Todd's husband Cary Grant arrives in town unexpectedly. They al I jaunt off to Venice where moral standards win out.
October 16, 2019
THE THIRD BANK OF THE RIVER (A TERCEIRA MARGEM DO RIO)
DescriptionDescription In his newest film, beloved Brazilian filmmaker Nelson Pereira dos Santos distills the essence of five short stories to create a narrative that encompasses city and country, reality and fantasy, good and evil. Liojorge and Alva have always known their daughter Nhinhinha is different-but it is only when they visit her aunt that the...
